of surrogate parenting. These include traditional and gestational. In traditional surrogacy‚ the mother shares genetic information as the child since she acts as a sperm recipient. The gestational surrogacy involves insemination with fertile ovum of the infertile couple. Therefore‚ she does not share genetic information as the child. The ethical dilemma that exists in surrogate parenting is whereby commercial surrogacy is viewed as exploitative to poor single women. The woman is viewed as a mere incubator
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Absolutist An absolutist is a rule that is true in all situations. The rule says things are basically right‚ no matter what the circumstances‚ there is no room for manoeuvre. What makes an ethic deontological is that it pays no regard to consequences‚ as the name makes clear‚ coming from the Greek duty. For example stealing is always wrong. It makes no difference who does it‚ what the reasons were‚ what culture they live in o whether it took place hundreds of years ago. Stealing is just one of those
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Margaret Sanger (1879 – 1966)‚ Birth control Margaret Sanger was born as Margaret Louisa Higgins on the 14th of September 1879 in New York. She was one of the 11 children born to Catholic working-class Irish American family. Her mother went through the 18 pregnancies (11 live birth and 7 miscarriages) in 22 years so that means that every 1.2 year she got pregnant. She died at the age of 40 (some sources say at 50) of tuberculosis and cervical cancer. The family lived on poverty because of father’s
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Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) If a woman does not become pregnant after treatment with medical and surgical techniques‚ she may choose to undergo more complex procedures‚ called ART‚ after consulting with her health care provider. These include: Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) In Vitro Fertilization Third Party Assisted ART Sperm Donation Egg Donation Surrogates and Gestational Carriers The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention compiles annual reports on the success rates
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Parenting- the process of raising and nurturing children in a family Caring- the process of looking after the needs and wellbeing of another person due to their age‚ illness or disability Biological parents- the parent who has provided the genetic material‚ either sperm or an ovum‚ to create a foetus Pregnancy Planned- involves a strategic choice on when to parent. There are physical‚ emotional and economic impacts that result from this decision Unplanned- may result from poor knowledge about contraception
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Michael Sandel’s book “What Money Can’t Buy” (WMCB) taps into a rich seam of discontent about the discipline of the free market and economics. Sandel’s mission in WMCB is to question whether the use of markets to allocate some goods is justifiable. The main arguments in WMCB are intended to provoke a suspicion that allowing transactions between consenting adults in a market place is not universally desirable. It focuses predominantly on market exchange‚ where one side of the transaction is financial
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of this poem‚ in which Coleridge’s infant son is the silent listener‚ is significant for Coleridge’s musings on the above themes. In “Coleridge the Revisionary: Surrogacy and Structure in the Conversation Poems‚” Peter Barry highlights the “surrogacy” element that is present in many of Coleridge’s conversation poems. Barry defines surrogacy as “the core of the central meditative episode” that is “a transaction between the speaking persona and a surrogate self‚ that is‚ another person onto whom are
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Discuss some of the anthropological challenges raised by the introduction of NRT’s (New Reproductive Technologies). In the world we live today‚ technology plays a very important role in the construction of our society. By the means of new technologies‚ new theories‚ ideologies and perspectives are being applied to understand social phenomena. Society has gone‚ and is still going through a new revolution‚ because technology has changed the way we look at different sectors in our lives‚ such as
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was sent to Oxford by the age of twelve‚ to study law as his father did. In 1748 Jeremy Bentham was born to a London attorney and his wife. However‚ Bentham ’s attention turned to law reform while at college and was opposed to practicing law (The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics‚ 2008). His interests became devoted to studying and writing‚ many times spending several hours a day writing. Even though Bentham wrote a great deal in his lifespan‚ several of his works were left unpublished until his
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Utilitarianism was first developed by Jeremy Bentham‚ a philosopher and legal theorist of the 18th century. Bentham argued that one should maximise happiness for the majority (‘the greatest good for the greatest number‚ a view which is known as the ‘Utility Principle’. Happiness was equated with moral goodness. This idea further identifies Bentham as a ‘psychological hedonist’‚ since he regarded humans as being primarily motivated by pleasure and the avoidance of pain. A contented society would be
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